American Short Fiction's 56th issue contains Rachel Swearingen's jewel of a story, "The Night Between Us," an echoing and lyric meditation on the landscape of fear and isolation. The piece, inspired by a line about eating postcards in Mary Reufle's poem "Like a Daffodil," presents a charming but damaged character afraid to leave her apartment and cede control to a dark, messy world. Melinda Moustakis describes the story as written with "sensuous brevity and beautiful longing." Reading it is an … [Read more...] about Inside the Issue: Rachel Swearingen on Postcards, Nostalgia and History